From d472b69da129af3950289170e13032d9c7913000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:30:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Document the null-char/null-byte escape in the reference It appears in the examples, but is not covered by any of the cases in the prose description. --- src/doc/reference.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/doc/reference.md b/src/doc/reference.md index 228af394838..6262618a030 100644 --- a/src/doc/reference.md +++ b/src/doc/reference.md @@ -236,6 +236,8 @@ following forms: * A _whitespace escape_ is one of the characters `U+006E` (`n`), `U+0072` (`r`), or `U+0074` (`t`), denoting the Unicode values `U+000A` (LF), `U+000D` (CR) or `U+0009` (HT) respectively. +* The _null escape_ is the character `U+0030` (`0`) and denotes the Unicode + value `U+0000` (NUL). * The _backslash escape_ is the character `U+005C` (`\`) which must be escaped in order to denote *itself*. @@ -297,6 +299,8 @@ following forms: * A _whitespace escape_ is one of the characters `U+006E` (`n`), `U+0072` (`r`), or `U+0074` (`t`), denoting the bytes values `0x0A` (ASCII LF), `0x0D` (ASCII CR) or `0x09` (ASCII HT) respectively. +* The _null escape_ is the character `U+0030` (`0`) and denotes the byte + value `0x00` (ASCII NUL). * The _backslash escape_ is the character `U+005C` (`\`) which must be escaped in order to denote its ASCII encoding `0x5C`.